10 June 2010

This may cost them some CPU time, but they’ll keep their user data more private. As in, third parties won’t be able to sniff and track Google traffic on their networks if this becomes the default at some point. This is very good for the consumer, but arguably even more interesting for Google, since it makes data mining more difficult for potential competitors.

7 April 2010

The project sounds tremendously interesting as it might end up giving anyone access to strong desktop security/sandboxing of a type already available in an “enterpricey” form in products like Citrix XenDesktop.

30 September 2009

Anti-malware companies must be panicking. Microsoft’s competition might finally force them to make their software usable. Microsoft Security Essentials is available for free for users of “Genuine” validated Windows copies.

5 September 2009

This method involves creating lots of links to well visited web sites and asking the browser for links marked as visited (no Javascript or cookies required). Ossi M explains this in Finnish, Boing Boing has a summary in English.